Blanco + FitzGerald at Chicago Design Museum

A collaborative poster by Graphic Design faculty members Ivanete Blanco and Kenneth FitzGerald is included in an invitational exhibition that is one of the inaugural events at the Chicago Design Museum. Fresh Produced: Exploring the Craft of Hand-Painted Signage celebrates “the traditional craft of these hand-painted grocery store signs. For this poster exhibition, designers were invited to take inspiration from and re-interpret hand-painted store signage to create an original piece for the Chicago Design Museum. Alongside these re-imagined pieces, we will be showcasing the skill and craft of Chicago sign painters by exhibiting original, hand-painted signage created for local grocery stores.”

Scholarship Winners for 2012

The recipients of this year’s Art Department scholarships have been announced, as selected by the Department faculty. Congratulations to all!

Barbara M. Gorlinsky Memorial Fine Arts Scholarship: John Gibson.

Harvey Ronald Saunders Memorial Endowed Scholarship: Rebecka Hall.

Charles K. Sibley Fine Arts and Art History Scholarship—Art studio: Jaime Escanellas, Alyssa Judkins, Rali Manouk; Art History: Elizabeth Duntemann, Celia Browning.

Lorraine and Dr. H. William Fink Art Scholarship in honor of Ken Daley: Kelcie Copeland

Come to the Annual Graduation Reception!

The Old Dominion University Art Department cordially invites our graduates, family and friends to our Annual Graduation Reception preceding the commencement ceremony. The reception will be held on Friday, May 4, 4:00 – 6:00 pm in the Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries, 4509 Monarch Way, right cross from the Ted Constant Convocation Center. Come celebrate and be celebrated!

Greta Pratt in The New Yorker

Photography professor Greta Pratt‘s work is included in the current The New Yorker on line. Her photograph, “World’s Largest Buffalo, Jamestown, ND” is the ultimate image in the “Beautiful Tourists”  Photo Booth slideshow.

5th Annual Art Students’ Juried Exhibition: Selections!

Congratulations to all the students selected for this year’s Annual Art Students’ Exhibition! Our thanks to Emily Spruill Labows, Director of Cultural Affairs for City of Virginia Beach, for serving as this year’s juror. Work may be picked up this weekend, Saturday April 14 and Sunday April 15, 1:00 – 4:00 both days. Selected work must be returned to gallery ready for installation on Tuesday, April 17, 11:30 – 4:30.

Amanda Bradley: Discomfort Series (bathtub featured)
Shakira Brooks: Gender’s Derriere
Sabrina Bryan: Illustrated Lyric Book, Storm, Outcomes of an Unborn Child
Matthew Budahn: Gold Vessels
Brittany Callis: Monkey Fist
James Clark: Eskimo Kiss
Ani Cook: Couple Walking Away, Man with Bicycle
Angela Corpuz: Utterance
Kelcie Copeland: The Broken Jesus, Broken
Dominique Davis: Portrait (bland and white)
Alexander Dorney: Levittower
Patrick Diggs: Know Mad, Southern Fruit
Miquel Dominado: Lux Aeternia
Maribel Dunning: Shifting Sand, Untitled
Stephanie Eley: Maid Marion, Beauty, Structure
Jaime Escanelllas: All Green: , Evening Cowboys
Iain Eudailey: Rock the Vote (Time is Running Out)
Yvonne Frederick: After…the Cleansing
Rachel Gaus: Color Me Red, Tornado
Constance A Georghiou: Blow, Vintage WLYS
John Gibson: No Eyes to See No Ears to Hear, Not-a-Shimi
Hope Gordon: Let it Flow, Untitled Oil Painting
Rebecka Hall: Artichoke!, The Waterfall
Elizabeth Halstead: Big Idea-Love
Jennifer Heath: Derby Time, Rock the Vote: Marriage
Brian Herman: Moonlight Table
Madelyn Higgins: Geometric Lidded Jar
Laura Holt: Bubble Off Plumb
Elzabeth Jux Howell: Valenium Prophecy
Abigail Johnson: Esther on the Toilet, King’s Feast
Shanice Johnson: Escape the Canyon
Tristan Kyles: Ideas
Alyssa Judkins: Untitled (boxes overflow to floor), Used Tires
Emily Knollenberg: Romans
Jonathan Kwok: The Canvas
Christy Landrum: Wachapreague Carnival
Ashlyn Langemeier: At Nana’s
Stephanie LiPuma: The Beating Threshold, Cold, Hard and Dangerous
Robbin Love: Self Portrait in Green
La’Shawn Mackey-Robinson: The Absence of Evidence is not the Evidence of Absence (framed photograph)
Rali Manouk: Picasso Faceted, Bowin’ in the Wind, World’s Longest Yard Sale
Michael Marotta: Embedded Induction
Tyler McCoy: Conceited
Wesley Miller: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Audio Book
Katherine Monegro: Morning/Night Electric, The Times Are A-Changing
John Moses: Godzilla vs Gezorah
Breanna Neville: Passion
Andrew Oberle: The Bad Guys
Pheak Ok: Jimi Hendrix
Ashley Ortiz: Stimulus/Response, Text Message Etiquette
Oktawian Otlewski: Forgotten Hero, Biggest Fan
Logan Perryman: Bushido
Brooke Phelps: The Women of the Roller Derby Series
Jaimie Phillips: Luis, Chasing the Light, Under Pressure
Christian Platon: Cloud Nine Series
Heather Prestage: Sideshow Freak
Jessica Ray: Stippled Stop Light Incorporating Topography, Value Scale Study Self Portrait
Christina Rea: Untitled Watercolor
Khalil Riddick: Complexity, Skeletal Hand
Alexandra Serino: Helping Hand
Jessie Sheffield: Rock the Vote, “Clean” Coal, Reconsider
Johnny Shield: Ocean’s String
Valerie Spivey: Clothespin Flower
Renee Stepanek: Crimes
Ceindy Ton: Arik
Christa Turpin: Fireplace (Self Portrait)
Angie Vandyke: Woven Box
Kaityln Wash: Little Lion Man, Makedamnsure, Burning Example
Anne Waterfield: A Rose to Remember
Alexandra Whetzel: Aishiteiru Kara/Akachau
Russel Yerkes: In the Midst of Turmoil, Eminent Rouge
Manuel Zavala: World’s Longest Yard Sale, Haunted Child, Lightnin’ Hopkins’ Extravaganza, Little Guy

Brandon Burdick named Portsmouth Teacher of the Year

Art Education alumnus Brandon Burdick (’07) has been named Teacher of the Year for the Portsmouth public school system. Previously, Brandon was selected for the same honor at Douglass Park Elementary School, where he teaches. Congratulations to Brandon on his additional achievement!

5th Annual Art Students’ Juried Exhibition and Scholarship Competition

Judging for the annual scholarship competition and 5th Annual Old Dominion University Art Students’ Juried Exhibition will take place this year on Friday, April 13. Scholarships will be selected by the Art Department faculty and the Exhibition juried by Emily Spruill Labows, Director of Cultural Affairs for City of Virginia Beach.

All students are eligible to compete for the student show. Scholarships are only available to students who intend to graduate in December 2012 or later.

To enter the Exhibition and/or Scholarship competition art studio students may bring up to five original works created in the last two years to the Gordon Gallery on the dates and times given below. Also bring a completed application form and a pre-made 4×5 card with name and e-mail clearly printed along with an artist’s statement of no more than 100 words.

Art History students please submit your applications to Robert Wojtowicz electronically by Monday, April 9. Your applications will be reviewed by the art history and studio art faculty with the winner announced with other scholarship awards.

To qualify for consideration for Art History, you must include the following as part of your application:
1. A completed cover sheet (download a PDF here) indicating that you are an Art History major in good academic standing; and
2. A well-researched and well-written paper (complete with bibliography, endnotes, and images) from a course in progress, or a revised and updated research paper from a course taken during an earlier semester.

Students selected for the Exhibition will be posted here at the Art department blog and posted at the gallery during work pick-up times. Scholarship winners will be posted here at the Art department blog later in the semester.
The application form is available here (PDF)
For further information, contact Greta Pratt for Scholarships and Heather Bryant for exhibition.

Drop off work:
Gordon Galleries
Tuesday, April 10
Wednesday, April 11
1:00 – 4:00 both days.

Judging:
Friday, April 13

Pick up work:
Saturday April 14
Sunday April 15
1:00 – 4:00 both days.

Selected work must be returned to gallery ready for installation on Tuesday, April 17, 11:30 – 4:30.
Exhibition: April 21- May 13
Reception: Saturday, April 21, 7:00–9:00pm

Kenneth FitzGerald in étapes

Graphic Design professor Kenneth FitzGerald is included amongst the “200 voices of graphic design” in the special 200th issue of the French graphic design magazine étapes. The issue features an international collection of practitioners, educators, writers, and critics commenting on aspects of contemporary graphic design. FitzGerald responds to five questions on the state of critical writing. The text of the magazine is in French, but you can read a translation here.

Pre-registration Advising Begins

Pre-registration advising begins after spring break. All students are required to meet with faculty in their major or concentration to clear the advising hold. See CDA Elliott Jones at other times for: portfolio review for transfer credit; evaluate transfer credits, course substitutions and waivers; evaluate AP course credit; declare a major; declare a minor in Studio Art or Art History; make changes in the major or minor; after seeing concentration advisor, review courses before applying for graduation; graduation certification; record discrepancies.
Check for faculty office hours or to make an appointment.

Pre-registration: April 9 – 13, Open registration begins April 14.

Art Education: Elliott Jones—VAB 212, ejones@odu.edu
Dianne deBeixedon—VAB 225, ddebeixe@odu.edu
Richard Nickel (on leave)—ARTS 110, rnickel@odu.edu

Art History: Robert Wojtowicz—BAL 9034, rwojtowi@odu.edu

Drawing & Design: Elliott Jones—VAB 212, ejones@odu.edu
Heather Bryant—VAB 129, hbryant@odu.edu

Studio Art (B.A.): Elliott Jones—VAB 212, ejones@odu.edu

Fibers: Dianne deBeixedon—VAB 225, ddebeixe@odu.edu

Graphic Design: Kenneth FitzGerald—VAB 112, kfitzger@odu.edu
Ivanete Blanco—VAB 227, iblanco@odu.edu

Painting: Elliott Jones—VAB 212, ejones@odu.edu

Print & Photo Media: Ken Daley—VAB 131, kdaley@odu.edu
Greta Pratt—VAB 219, gpratt@odu.edu
Heather Bryant—VAB 129, hbryant@odu.edu

3D Media: John Roth—VAB 139, jroth@odu.edu
Dianne deBeixedon—VAB 225, ddebeixe@odu.edu
Peter Eudenbach (on leave)—VAB 140, peudenba@odu.edu

Greta Pratt in conversation

Photography professor Greta Pratt contributed recently to the influential photography blog Little Brown Mushroom. She took part in a conversation about the variety of issues involved in being both a mother and an artist.